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Dist:0.1km<br/>Gillott Road runs between the A456 Hagley Road to the south behind the viewpoint and the B4126 Icknield Port Road. Houses here are large Victorian villas, mostly semi-detached, many of which have been converted into flats.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>These substantial Victorian villas are now mostly let as flats. There seems to be a fairly rapid turnover of tenancies given the number of 'to let' boards in evidence. These houses when built may well have been owned by landlords of the thousands of back-to-back houses in the central areas of Birmingham of which only a handful survive in a state of preservation. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=13573659 for some images of them.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>Number 419 is the property at the left with the white front door, the tree and the 'to let' board in front of it. It is little different from its neighbours in the southern end of Gillott Road. It has been let as flats from at least the late 1940s as the photographer spent the first three years of his life in the first floor flat. At the time the branch railway to Harborne that ran at the bottom of our garden was still in use. It appears to be a linear park now.
©Brian Robert Marshall
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the southernmost section of the Victorian road which is almost 2 kilometres long in all. In the far distance is the A456 Hagley Road, one of the main routes out of Birmingham to the west and the M5. The road at the left just beyond the white van is Holly Road. Its junction with Gillott Road has been restricted presumably to stop rat-running.
©Brian Robert Marshall
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen here from Lyttleton Road, this church was completed in 1868 and boasts a splendid 185ft spire.
©Chris Denny
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.4km<br/>St. Augustine's church dates from 1868 and is a listed building. The church sits on an island surrounded by quiet residential streets, and lies at the heart of the St. Augustine's Conservation Area
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.5km<br/>Grade II* listed
©Keshvala

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